John G. Roberts, Jr.

It was 1965 and Henry Marsh sat incredulous as Virginia's former attorney general told a U.S. Senate hearing that the commonwealth didn't discriminate against black voters. What would eventually be known as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was up for debate, and Virginia most certainly didn't want to lumped in with other Southern states. Marsh, then a 31-year-old lawyer, held a copy of a recent federal court ruling holding Virginia in violation of voting rights. At the lunch break, Marsh approached a young Sen. Ted Kennedy and handed him a copy. "After lunch, he interrogated Mr. Gray," Marsh said last week, referring to former Virginia Attorney General Frederick...

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